Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Life and Reproduction Sciences, University of Verona, Italy Post-Graduate Program of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Clinical Analysis, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Rajiv T Erasmus, MB BS, FMC Path, FWACP, DABCC (Am Board Certified), DHSM, FCPath (SA) Professor and Head, Division of Chemical Pathology, Stellenbosch University and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) Rajiv Erasmus is President of the South African Association for Clinical Biochemistry (SAACB), Vice President of the College of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Secretary of the Federation of South African Society for Pathology (FSASP) Correspondence to: rte@sun.

Dr Yossi Levy, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at Ben Gurion University, Israel, recently presented new findings from two studies that show that the oral consumption of carotenoids from tomato (lycopene, phytoene, phytofluene) helps to maintain healthy skin by protecting it against UV induced damage.

He has since worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Oxford, as professor of clinical biochemistry, and served as scientific advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research.

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